Posts Tagged ‘Damian Kemp’
Friday, July 4th, 2014
Just before the retirement of Sally Ash, CRT announced on 24th June that it is to create a new post of Head of Customer Service, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Richard Parry. The new post will be responsible for leisure boating, licensing and enforcement as well as other customer service changes. This strips Marketing Director Simon Salem of much of his role.
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Tags: Damian Kemp, Dean Davies, enforcement team, Heather Clarke, IWA, Matthew Symonds, Richard Parry, Sally Ash, Simon Salem, Sorwar Ahmed
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
CRT is currently recruiting seven new staff whose main purpose will be to persuade boat dwellers without home moorings to accept “new policies”; making sure that CRT’s “messages are accurately understood by social and print media as well as all those affected by changes ” and “helping to develop understanding of the legal framework within which we exercise our responsibilities as navigation authority”. Seven posts have been advertised; these are three Community Participation Managers and three Towpath Mooring Control Managers for London, the South and the North, plus an Administrator. The total cost is around £500,000.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring policy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in A-Featured Articles, Continuous Cruisers, CRT, CRT Policy News, Mooring, News | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Following a Freedom of Information request via www.whatdotheyknow.com, a boater has obtained the job descriptions and person specifications for most of the CRT/ BW enforcement team, apart from the job description for Enforcement and Licensing Manager Denise Yelland. This includes information about the numbers of staff in each position in different waterway areas.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, enforcement team, FOI requests, liveaboards, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, FOI Act requests | No Comments »
Saturday, October 27th, 2012
When making arrangements for a meeting between BaNES Council and Sally Ash and Damian Kemp of BW in December 2011, one of the Council’s housing officers said in an email that “We .. have on-going concerns regarding their appreciation of the potential impact of the proposed moorings strategy (ie homelessness, access to education/services etc).”
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Tags: BANES Council, Bath, Bathampton, Damian Kemp, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash, traveller's rights
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
It has emerged from the minutes of a meeting on 8 December 2011 between BW and Bath and NE Somerset Council that BW intend the Local Mooring Strategy to include roving mooring permits.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI requests, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | No Comments »
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Following news of Alton Parish Council’s aim to prevent boats mooring between the Barge Inn and Honey Street bridge, boaters were invited by parish council representatives to discuss their concerns. Three boaters met with the members of the parish council before its meeting on 14 March.
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Tags: Damian Kemp, Honey Street, liveaboards, Mark Stephens, mooring, Parish councils, RBOA
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
BW plans to carry out the consultation on the Kennet and Avon Local Mooring Strategy between the end of May and the end of September 2012, according to a Freedom of Information response from BW.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, Mooring Strategy Committee, Moorings Consultation, News | No Comments »
Monday, February 27th, 2012
On 28 November 2011, BW’s Damian Kemp informed members of the Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group by email that there would be no more meetings and that BW would complete the Mooring Strategy in-house. Yet this message has turned out to be entirely dishonest – BW had already planned in September 2011 that the October 2011 meeting was to be the last.
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Tags: BANES Council, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, FOI request, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Sally Ash
Posted in BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
BW recently released a draft summary of the Local Mooring Strategy proposals to the Steering Group and the representatives of unaffiliated boaters on the Group responded to these draft proposals this week. BW has asked for responses from Steering Group members prior to putting the finalised proposals out to consultation. Watch out for boaters’ meetings soon to make sure you have your say about it. BW’s summary of the proposals and the unaffiliated boaters’ response is below.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in A-Featured Articles, BW Policy News and FOI Act Requests, Continuous Cruisers, Mooring Strategy Committee, News | No Comments »